AFP 2018 Speaking Session – Slideshow – What is the impact of a company’s ratings on public capital markets, its banks’ internal profitability assessments, and its banking relationships? The answer allows treasury practitionners to more effectively manage bank relationships as well as to understand the key components to consider when allocating business to banks.
Slideshow – Hear how Uber worked with their banking and software partners and used the new 2018 AFP Global Service Codes to gain insight and visibility into their cash management banks spanning 57 countries.
Redbridge is excited to be presenting insights pertaining to Global Treasury and Cash Management, including optimization of bank cash management and payment card fees as well as our next generation of bank fee monitoring software, HawkeyeBSB. Don’t miss our two speaking sessions! We look forward to speaking with you at Booth #609, where members of Redbridge will be located.
With increasing global regulations on KYC, corporate treasurers are seeking some standardization and simplification in a process that also causes a great deal of administrative red-tape at banks in their efforts to comply with ever expanding regulatory requirements.
Redbridge’s Dan Gill and Greg Moore of AutoNation discuss how treasury professionals can become ‘treasury superheros’ by using software tools to help analyze and manage their bank service utilization and related bank fees across the globe.
The U.S. Private Placement market saw record volumes last year, with investment grade deals continuing to dominate the market. While relatively spread differential and weak covenant packages keep traditional investors out of the non-investment grade market, some investors do have appetite for well-structured deals.
The Dallas Sheraton | April 08-10, 2018 – Redbridge is excited to be presenting insights pertaining to Global Treasury and Cash Management, including optimization of bank cash management and payment card fees as well as our next generation of bank fee monitoring software, HawkeyeBSB.
It is a perfect time for merchants to be asking important questions regarding their current payment card processing to make sure that they are maximizing the use of available and appropriate services at a competitive rate, says Dan Carter, associate director at Redbridge.
At the time of the biannual review of its network fee schedule, applied to acquiring banks, Visa Europe has introduced new elements and raised the rates on ecommerce transactions. For Mélina Le Sauze, Director at Redbridge, these changes strengthen the interest in optimizing the allocation of acquiring bank flows.
The vast majority of Fortune 100 companies, if not all, utilize the public markets for raising capital funding through alternative sources rather than utilizing only banks for raising needed capital. In the Fortune 101 to 929, the majority utilize banks as their capital funding sources, reveals a in-depth study of the debt structure of Fortune 1000 conducted by Redbridge.
Using the Commercial Paper market to cover the bridge financing of an acquisition can provide buyers with substantial savings. However, the strategy does require a bit of foresight and vigilance on a number of points, as Matthieu Guillot, senior director at Redbridge, explains.
BSB Newsletter – A newsletter all about bank billing to corporations and other wholesale bank services users: standards, adoption of standards, billing practices and optimizing the billing experience.
Raphael Leprette, senior director at Redbridge, discusses the opportunities arising from a merger of two treasury organizations. According to him, to optimize synergies, it is key to value the history, culture, experience and expertise of each team in the merger and encourage cross-fertilization of knowledge and sharing of expertise.
Last August, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an update that simplifies accounting rules around hedge accounting. The update is effective for public companies in 2019 and private companies in 2020, but early adoption is permitted. With several options available in the implementation, the full impact of the new guideline must be carefully determined before setting an adoption date.
A happy, healthy and prosperous 2018.
